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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an Aug. 15 statement that having polling locations hand-count ballots jeopardizes ballot security and risks dangerous delays.
In 2020, Cobb County, Ga., ordered a hand count of just the presidential votes. It took hundreds of people five full days to get through a little fewer than 400,000 ballots.
The new rule, which was passed Sept. 20, would require three separate individuals in each precinct to count the number of ballots by hand and confirm each of their counts matches those of the others.
The Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration sued the state board to block the controversial new rule. Here’s how the ruling affects their case.
The new rule requires that the number of ballots — not the number of votes — be counted at each polling place by three separate poll workers until all three counts are the same. If a scanner has more than 750 ballots inside at the end of voting, the poll manager can decide to begin the count the following day.
The hand count rule would require three poll workers in each of the state's more than 6,500 precincts to open the sealed boxes of ballots scanned by machines and conduct a hand count, starting as ...
There's a detailed, gradual process to hand count ballots and Cochise County ignored it, Arizona court rules in lingering case from 2022 election.
The Georgia State Election Board on Friday voted 3-2 to require counties to hand-count ballots cast on Election Day, a move that could drastically lengthen the amount of time to tally results in a ...